BADIN: Rag-pickers whose li
velihood is dependent on recycling factories are facing hardships across
the province after a ban and the sealing of recycling and cardbo
ard factories b
y the Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa).
Cardboard and recycling factories had been sealed in Hyderabad and Kotri districts on
the pretext of violation of law and regulations. These factories had failed to install treatment plants to control pollution.
The rag-pickers earn their li
velihood by collecting scrap and other w
aste material and later selling it to recycle factories. The closure of cardboard and recycling factories would increase unemployment in the country. Over a hundred shops deal with recycle stuff alone in District Badin. Meanwhile, the former president of Peoples Labour Union, District Badin, Mohammad Iqbal said that members of over a 1,000 poor families were engaged in the picking up of cardboards and other w
aste materials are affected due to the closure of these recycling and cardbo
ard factories in the district.
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